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the throne. the nation wakes up to a period of mourning thousands. have gathered outside buckingham palace to pay their respects to a monarch who dedicated her life to duty. king charles iii will return to london from balmoral as the new monarch. a states woman of unmatched dignity, the world s leaders pay tribute. and we take a look at how the morning newspapers have paid tribute to her majesty, the queen. hello, good morning. the nation has begun a period of mourning after the death of her majesty queen elizabeth ii. the queen passed away peacefully at balmoral just two days after welcoming the new prime minister there. her son, king charles iii, will make his way to london this morning as the new monarch. thousands of people already gathering outside buckingham palace last night to pay their respects, where we will hear tributes to her majesty and reflect on a life of duty and of service. our first report this morning from our correspondent alex rossi on the end of a ....
interest rates have gone up by three quarters of a percentage point, the biggest increase for more than 30 years. it pushes the base rate up to 3%, as the bank of england tries to control inflation. it s the eighth rise in a row, meaning higher mortgage bills for many homeowners. meanwhile the bank has also warned the uk could be on course for its longest recession since reliable records began, over a century ago. our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. it is the biggest interest rate rise in a third of a century. the cost of living has been rising at its fastest rate for a0 years for global reasons but the bank of england is trying to prevent runaway inflation from becoming embedded in the domestic economy. these are big changes, they have a real impact on people s lives, so why are we doing it? and why are we doing it now when so many people are already struggling with higher energy and food prices and other bills? quite simply we are increasing the bank ra ....
washington, d.c. this comes as u.s. attorney general merrick garland has appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation. for the latest, let s bring in cnn s saenz siarlette saenz at e house. tell us about the statement the white house is sharing. reporter: we re starting to get a better picture of exactly how many documents have been found between the president s residence in wilmington, delaware, as well as a former office that he used here when he had left the vice presidency. and based on cnn reporting as well as the disclosures that have come from the white house office, it appears there are approximately 20 documents with classified markings that had been found between those two locations. now, one of those documents was found in an adjacent room to the president s garage in wilmington, delaware. the white house had initially said that included one page. but it is now revealed that there were actually an additional five pages that were found on thurs ....
at the inception each of these investigations in the same way. by bringing in a special counsel to review the biden side of this document saga, i think the attorney general has done exactly that. he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special counsel, he needs to step away from it. not subjected to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you have given maybe two u.s. attorney. that seems to be the way he s treating jack smith. i have no doubt he ll do those things. but from this point forward, laura, these cases will go, i suspect, in very different directions. they will follow the facts in the law, and so far, from what we ve seen, the facts of these two situations are very different. john, i m really interested, based on your prior role in particular, about the idea of why it is biden was tightlipped about the investigations. obviously, from the doj perspective, there is a level of gravitas that must be assigned, and you don t really want tr ....
it, it s today. good to see you. kaitlan is on assignment. so we re going to start with catching you up on the five big stories on cnn this morning. we re looking more about the suspect in the new year s eve machete attack. sources say the 19-year-old wrote of his desire to join the taliban in afghanistan and diaz a martyr. he s currently in custody in a new york city hospital where he s recovering from a gunshot wond. the three officers injured in the machete attack have all been treated and released. also, this morning, the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in a pennsylvania court tomorrow. his name is bryan kohberger. he faces four counts of first degree murder and a charge of burglary in moscow, idaho. he s accused of killing four college students as they slept in their home in idaho. we ll speak to one of the students who was in one of his classes, co-burger s classes. he ll join us in a minute. tens of thousands o ....